Item - 2025.IE25.12
Tracking Status
- This item will be considered by Infrastructure and Environment Committee on October 29, 2025. It will be considered by City Council on November 12, 13 and 14, 2025, subject to the actions of the Infrastructure and Environment Committee.
IE25.12 - Speeding up the Spadina Streetcar
- Consideration Type:
- ACTION
- Ward:
- 11 - University - Rosedale
October 22, 2025 - A communication was posted.
October 23, 2025 - Communications were posted.
October 27, 2025 - A communication was posted.
October 28, 2025 - Communications were posted.
Origin
Recommendations
Councillor Dianne Saxe recommends that:
1. The Infrastructure and Environment Committee request the General Manager, Transportation Services, to investigate and report back in the first quarter 2026 on the feasibility of adjusting signal timings to allow the Spadina streetcar to proceed through each intersection before left-turning vehicles do, in order to speed up the service.
Summary
The Spadina streetcar is seriously delayed, and made less reliable, by allowing left-turning vehicles to turn before the streetcar can proceed through every intersection. This can and should be fixed by a minor signal timing change.
Background Information
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/ie/bgrd/backgroundfile-259437.pdf
Communications
(October 22, 2025) E-mail from Tom Davis (IE.Supp)
(October 23, 2025) E-mail from Juzer Kheraluwala (IE.Supp)
(October 26, 2025) E-mail from George Bell (IE.Supp)
(October 27, 2025) E-mail from Satadru Satadal Roy (IE.Supp)
(October 27, 2025) E-mail from Narayan Donaldson (IE.Supp)
(October 28, 2025) E-mail from Hamish Wilson (IE.Supp)
(October 28, 2025) Letter from Andrew Pulsifer, Executive Director, TTCriders (IE.Supp)
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/ie/comm/communicationfile-197394.pdf